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C. E. COE. COMBINED WHIPPLBTREB OLIP AND HOOK.

UNITED STATES CHARLES E. COE, OE ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR SAME PLACE.

PATENT OFFICE.

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COMBINED WH-IFFLETREE CLIP AND HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 589,122, dated August 31, 1897. Application filed January 29, 1897'. lSerial No. 621,210. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. Con, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined VVhiflietree Clip and Hook, of whichthe following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof. lo My invention has relation to improvements in combined Whiffletree clips and hooks; and it consists in the novel arrangement and combination of parts more fully set forth in the specification, and pointed out in the claims. In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention. Fig. 2 is an end View of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section of the clip, taken on the line ac of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse section zo on the line y y of Eig. 1, and Fig. 5 is a plan section on the line ,e z of Fig.v 2.

The object of my invention is to construct a combined Whiffletree clip and hook which can be secured to the whiffletree wit-hout the use of rivets, screws, and like fastenings, the

hook being locked to the clip after the latter has been passed over the whiffletree and secured to the saine in a manner the details of 4o near or at the opposite end of the narrowportion of the clip. Within each lug 3 and located opposite to one another is formed a pocket 6,0f suitable depth and width,the walls of the pockets being practically U-shaped.

' (See Fig. 3.) These pockets serve to receive the pivotal lugs 7 7 of the hook 8, the shank 'of said hook gradually diverging or expanding from the end which carries the lugs to the base thereof. y (See Fig.v 2.) To better ac- 5o commodate the inner curved edge 9 of the hook duringthe insertion of the hook into the pockets, theclip is hollowed out adjacent to the inner vertical walls of the pockets, so as to present a depression 10, running the full length of the lugs 3. 55

To insert the hook into the pockets of the clip, the former is held in the position indicated in dotted lines 'in Fig. 3, passing the pivotal lugs 7 into said pockets from above and letting the hook down until the lugs 7 6o vrest on the bottom of the said pockets, so that when the hook is released it will fall or swing to the position indicated in full lines in Fig. 1. After the clip is passed and secured on the whifietree there is no possibility for the hook to fallout, and thelatter mayeven swing to the position indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1-that is to say, parallel to the surface of the whiiiietree-without any danger of its becoming disengaged from the clip. 7o

It is thus seen that the present hook can be secured to the clip without the use of rivets or nails, and when occasion arises to remove the clip from the Whiffletree the hook can be readily disengaged from the clip and reinserfted as necessity demands. Of course it is obvious that the whiffletree keeps the hook in place Within the clip after the clip is once passed over the Whifietree. The rib 4 keeps the traces from Working off. from the hook. 8o

the rear Walls of the same,a hook having a suitable 'shank and outwardly-projecting pivotal 9o lugs at the end of the hook-shank adapted to be inserted into the pockets and between .the inner adjacent surfaces of the lugs, and a rib connecting the cliplugs .to the body portion and having an inclined edge coperatin g with y the endof the hook when the latter is in its closed position, substantially as set forth.

from the periphery of the same, U-shaped roo l to the body portion of the clip, substantially ro as Set forth.

In testimony whereof I afx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES E. COE.

XVitn esses:

EMIL STAREK, B. B. Moss. 

